Suttree Summary

Cormac McCarthy's "Suttree" is a reading experience that stretches far beyond ordinary plot, structure and literary flow. With words that ebb, flow, tumble and roll—some valid and some concocted—McCarthy takes his reader through the moods, dreams, and dark inner life of his protagonist, Bud Suttree, as well as the inner life and underbelly of Knoxville, Tennessee. The despair of a small community of broken people living haphazardly...

Cormac McCarthy Biographies (1)

Cormac McCarthy, whose early novels were often set in eastern Tennessee and whose later work focuses on the American Southwest, is frequently compared with such Southern-based writers as William Faulk...
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Quote from Suttree
"But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse, only Suttree didn't say so" (372).
This quote embodied Cormac McCarthy's fourth novel and personifie...
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